Well there's nothing wrong with any mobile operating system used be it WinMo, Symbian-S40/60/80, Symbian-UIQ, MobileLinux, etc. Its more about market segmentation. I don't believe the 'Omnia HD' will be the name. We've already got an Omnia HD which is a Korean-only product. Its the same Omnia but with a higher resolution screen plus other improvements. The i8910 will be one of Samsung's infotainment line of phones. The infotainment line of phones WILL use both WinMo and Symbian depending on models. Maybe they will go completely Symbian because WinMo (in its current state) isn't as friendly as most consumers would like it to be.

WinMo 7 will be a better answer to that but we don't know now, obviously. But that does not mean WinMo is complete rubbish. The reason why mobile operating system like WinMo is preferred is due to the ease of programming especially when you want a custom UI shell on top of it. Thats how we got TouchFlo/3D, Xperia Panels, Samsung UI. Its easy to write in .Net mobile frameworks, Windows related standards than on Symbian. By the way Symbian does not provide the infrastructure for complex UI transitions. However, Symbian can be very light weighted without fancy UIs. Then we have to say both Symbian and WinMo is equal in the UI side of things. Flash UI was promising but it wasn't on most Symbian due to licensing issues. Symbian Foundation will be a better avenue for that.

So I would thing of it in different market segmentations. WinMo for business users who wants Push Mail and still have most of the common Windows-like apps and file format support system. Symbian S60/Symbian Foundation for the mid-high end market while Symbian S40 (Nokia-only) for the mass consumer market. For other manufacturers, it will still be dominated with Flash UI non-smartphone interfaces.

This post has been edited by davidmak: Feb 17 2009, 04:15 PM

Thanks for the correction. But the rest still applies.

I wanted to get the Xperia but this piece of news made me feel better. I can now postponed my purchase in anticipation for this one.

I have checked their videos. I hope the menu action isn't pre-rendered. Otherwise, looks like we have a pretty functional prototype which indicates product readiness. Guess we will have to keep an eye on FCC/CE leaks. If these products hit FCC/CE before Q2 ends, we should be able to expect Q3/4 launch. Otherwise, it'll be next year.

Larger photo and larger prints only lor... If we used it on PC/Web, no difference. In fact, it'll be ruin if we don't resize it. When was the last time you receive ugly quality pictures from ultra large forwarded emails because the sender forgot to resize them?

Anyway picture quality will most likely suffer since they're cramming more pixels to the same sensor size. Unless they enlarge the silicon die to accommodate 4MP increase in resolution. Otherwise, we'll see overflowing of light to the neighbor sensor, noise and all the unacceptable characteristics of ultra-highly dense sensor chip. The compact camera is bad enough.

I've targeted this gadget too! I hope it can make it by Christmas.

Yeah, the article mentioned about its 'Exmor' family qualities. Hopefully they will implement the same design implementations for mobile phones. So we'll get good noise characteristics for such a high resolution sensor chip. The Exmor was pretty successful with the A700 followed by the full frame A900. Anyway this Idou sounds like an entertainment phone with focus on music. Another high end Walkman phone? I wonder they will have something for the 'Cybershot' only phone in their sleeves. Or maybe Idou is part of a new line of smartphones, since UIQ has been dropped off?